Quotes with men-intellectuals

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  • John Ruskin An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Joseph Addison Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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  • Julius Caesar As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alcuin of York At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
    Alcuin of York
    English scholar, clergyman and poet
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Joseph Addison Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Max Lerner Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Franklin Pierce Adams Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
    Franklin Pierce Adams
    American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Joseph De Maistre False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Adam Clarke Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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